Was he a good leader or a Fascist stooge?

He wasn't much of a fan of Hitler and even dared to be rude towards him when he was visiting by lighting a cigar. Did what he had to since almost all others were useless help against soviets.

>Fascist stooge
Do you even know anything about him?
He was a good leader and he didn't have anything to do with fascism, he simply ''allied'' with Germans in order to fight off Soviets. It succeeded.
He was also completely right about wanting to fuck up Bolsheviks early on during Russian Civil War, but politicians cock-blocked him.

>>3006056
The eternal Anglo stabbed him in the back and ruined his plan to take petrograd back from the reds in exchange for whites accepting finnish independence.

>>3006056
>It succeeded.
Iam not sure if you can call loosing 2 wars in 4 years a success

>>3006056
He never allied with germans because he wasnt a political leader until after ww2 when they made him president for a short while. The person wasnt exactly political.

>>3006170
Finns lost both wars but retained most of their independence. For a small remote country facing Soviets that was a huge success.

>>3006170
>Preserved their independence and killed hundreds of thousands of commies in the process
>Not a success

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>>3006183
>>3006194
>losses entire Karelia insteado of tiny territory around Zelenogorsk Soviet asked for
>calls it victory
Finns are pathetic

>>3006273

Molotov-Ribbentrop gave all of Finland not just a part of it to Soviets.

Soviets knowing they had their Nazi allies backing them up indirectly(f.ex preventing Mussolini from sending supplies) wanted war not just a small piece of land. The negotiations would have never worked out no matter what concessions Finns were willing to make.

>>3005818
>Fascist stooge
Lolwat? He wasn't too fond of fascism, he was an old school conservative monarchist.

>>3006273
This. Remember when the Baltics gave away a few military bases and lived happily ever after? Finns were just paranoid idiots.

>>3006529
m-muh Stalin was Trotsky
m-muh area with the size of Moscow is entry point to attack Finland

>>3006779
Yeah Stalin would never have used these concessions to gain even more later. He certainly didn't do it in Estonia for example.